Is he the affable guy who would wave to neighbors, talk with them about his Harley and the little girl he sometimes walked with?

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"In fact I've gone out of my way time and again to point out that he's a perfectly affable fellow, and he's not stupid and he's not mean, " she says.

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Stevens' main liability seems to be that he is an affable, quirky risk-taker in the charm-challenged world of GOP political pros.

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